Design Ideas: Stylish Mezzanine Floors

Loft Apartment Mezzanine Office

For the past 17 years, Pierre Frey has made his home at the summit of
the sixteenth-century building that is the Paris headquarters of
the company bearing the family name, founded in this very building
by his grandfather - the original Pierre Frey - back in 1935. With
the help of architect Marika Dru, he has transformed the flat's
modest rooms in to an airy, open-plan apartment, pushing up in to
the attic area to create an enhanced feeling of space and
light.

A mezzanine gallery was installed which looks down on to the
main living room, and serves as a home office for his wife Emilie.
Trawling the Paris flea markets, the couple found a vintage spiral
staircase designed by Gustave Eiffel to access the mezzanine. It
forms a sculptural focal point in the apartment. The original beams
were exposed to add warmth and character, while the walls are
papered in a classic Pierre Frey palm-print paper.